Brad Withrow-Robinson, OSU Forestry & Natural resources Extension.
One of our visits was to a cooperative forest jointly owned by about a dozen families from Bengtshedens village. The Mellanskog landowner cooperative also has a significant share of ownership.
We were greeted on arrival by two of the family owners with coffee and cinnamon rolls before touring the forest.
Mellanskog Forester Lars Eric explaining management practices such as regeneration, thinning and fertilization in a 100-year-old stand of Scotts pine.
We visited the Log Max factory in Grangarde, innovative producers of logging processing heads.Our group observing Log Max and Eco Log equipment in their native habitat of central Sweden.
Regeneration of pine with seed tree cuts is common in Sweden and Norway.
